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Believing in Belonging - Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World (Paperback)
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Believing in Belonging - Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World (Paperback)
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Believing in Belonging draws on empirical research exploring
mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American
countries. Starting from a qualitative study based in northern
England, and then broadening the data to include other parts of
Europe and North America, Abby Day explores how people 'believe in
belonging', choosing religious identifications to complement other
social and emotional experiences of 'belongings'. The concept of
'performative belief' helps explain how otherwise non-religious
people can bring into being a Christian identity related to social
belongings. What is often dismissed as 'nominal' religious
affiliation is far from an empty category, but one loaded with
cultural 'stuff' and meaning. Day introduces an original typology
of natal, ethnic and aspirational nominalism that challenges
established disciplinary theory in both the European and North
American schools of the sociology of religion that assert that most
people are 'unchurched' or 'believe without belonging' while
privately maintaining beliefs in God and other 'spiritual'
phenomena. This study provides a unique analysis and synthesis of
anthropological and sociological understandings of belief and
proposes a holistic, organic, multidimensional analytical framework
to allow rich cross cultural comparisons. Chapters focus in
particular on: the genealogies of 'belief' in anthropology and
sociology, methods for researching belief without asking religious
questions, the acts of claiming cultural identity, youth, gender,
the 'social' supernatural, fate and agency, morality and a
development of anthropocentric and theocentric orientations that
provides a richer understanding of belief than conventional
religious/secular distinctions.
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